Waxman-Markey: The Essentials
Posted by Dana Walsh - Mon, January 04, 2010 at 04:28 PM
I started to watch hearings on the absurd Waxman-Markey bill (Cap & Trade, here we come…) on C-Span today. At least Democrat Representative Markey used his opening remarks to admit that states that are working on developing options and programs for energy conservation appropriate for their states and regions complain that it is the federal government that undermines their progress. Once again, the federal government is the problem, not the solution.
As states work to develop new, innovative approaches that serve the needs of their citizens and communities and investigate regional solutions when appropriate, the Congress is furiously spewing out federal rules and regulations often at odds with viable, effective projects.
Certainly I understand that some states are as regulation-heavy as the feds. (I’m a Californian, for heavens sake!) If only state and regional programs could all be designed and implemented as pilot projects, with benchmarks, deadlines and evaluation. Let’s demand that of our government officials.
But Congress is intent on controlling all energy use – and in a manner so convoluted as to make your head spin. Think I’m exaggerating?
Check out this “bullet point” version of the 946-page bill passed under the radar this summer. Imagine what the bill actually looks like. (The bill “The American Clean Energy and Security Act, ACES, H.R. 2454) is linked in the article if you’re a masochist and want to read it in its entirety.)
This is what we’ve come to expect from Nancy Pelosi’s Congress. Nancy hails from perhaps the most mismanaged city in the land. If Nancy Pelosi remains Speaker of the House, there’s a good chance (perhaps it’s inevitable) that the country will soon become as dysfunctional as San Francisco is.
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Your last paragraph really hit home - it’s a real possibility that our country could start to approach a point of no return with these liberal policies!
If the federal government continues encroaching on our state, then the only option left is to SECEDE!!
Dana, I hope you are not “just another lawyer”. Nothing against lawyers in particular—you need them to get you out of scrapes, once in a while… I don’t even know if Queen Nancy ever went to law school, but… she acts like one whose importance went To Her Head, and, BEYOND!, to use a well known “Toy Story” phrase…
Cap and Tax, Is that that “Global Warming is only Our Fault” bill? The authors of that belief should have been around for 3 years after the blowing of Krakatau—the Island in the Pacific that blew up, May 20, 1883. Too bad they weren’t sitting on it when it blew!
As for, “developing new, innovative approaches”—to anything—that Ain’t the common and ordinary legislature of any state or nation, unfortunately…
You need clear thinking entrepreneurs and scientists, inventers and engineers – people with vision – to come up with innovative approaches!
Now if enough people with vision would run for and get elected to the Congress of the United States and state governments, we’d have the kind of Nation today that the Founding Fathers dreamed it would be instead of a quagmire of mediocrity and self serving Narcissists.
Dana, are you a person of vision? Can you promote:
The kind of health care reform we need, like, Tort Reform, for instance??
The kind of Islamic Terrorist control we need, like General Pershing did in the Philippines?
The kind of “Rules of Engagement” for Our Military when engaged with “The Enemy” in “Combat” Zones!, like, we did in WWII ??
Is there anything wrong with the words, “Absolute Victory” and “Unconditional Surrender”?
Can you come up with the kind of Immigration Reform we need, like, Expand and Enforce E-Verify (or something better), and Enough Boots on the ground and drones in the air to enforce border security?
You can’t protect a camera on a pole, not even a Million $$$ pole, but, you can’t climb up a pole and destroy a Predator so easily! It’s very hard to maintain ground communication in the hills and valleys of the terrain our border sits on, but it would be easy if those same drones could relay the messages!
I hope so!, because, we all have had enough of “Air Force 3 – Nancy”!